On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:44:38 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
Hola :-)
> So I'm trying to use Ctrl-R to do reverse search in the history. Thia is
> what happens; I try to search for "white":
>
> kje...@kjetil:~$ history | tail
(...)
> (reverse-i-search)`wh': aptitude why patch
>
> --- After typing "wh" (without the quotes), it does not accept more
> letters!
>
> Why? What am I doing wrong?
Nothing wrong.
It finds the only possible pattern matching your reverse query ("aptitude
why patch") and it stops (meaning you have no typed any other command
containg "wh").
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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